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Sagard The Barbarian
''Sagard the Barbarian'' is a series of four Hero's Challenge Gamebooks written by Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and Flint Dille, screenwriter ('' An American Tail: Fievel Goes West'', '' The Transformers: The Movie'') and game writer/designer (''Dead to Rights'', '' The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay''). The four books star the eponymous hero Sagard the Barbarian, and are titled ''The Ice Dragon'', ''The Green Hydra'', ''The Crimson Sea'' and ''The Fire Demon''. They were 'fight a path' adventures which added a fighting game system to the normal pick-a-path game system. History Flint Dille met Gary Gygax while Gygax was in Hollywood and they began collaborating on a number of projects, including the ''Sagard the Barbarian'' gamebook series (1985-1986), which was published by Pocket Books Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. History Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax ( ; July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008) was an American game designer and author best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') with Dave Arneson. In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention. In 1971, he helped develop ''Chainmail'', a miniatures wargame based on medieval warfare. He co-founded the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with childhood friend Don Kaye in 1973. The following year, he and Arneson created ''D&D'', which expanded on Gygax's ''Chainmail'' and included elements of the fantasy stories he loved as a child. In the same year, he founded '' The Dragon'', a magazine based around the new game. In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons''. Gygax designed numerous manuals for the game system, as well as several pre-packaged adventures called "modules" that gave a pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
